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41) American Dharma
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winning Director Errol Morris faces off with controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump adviser, Steve Bannon. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**, **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **The New York Film Festival**.
42) One October
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical time capsule that offers a window into the shifting heart of New York City. Filmed entirely in October of 2008, a time when gentrification was rapidly displacing the working and middle classes, Wall Street was plummeting, and Senator Obama was making his first presidential bid. The story begins with Clay Pigeon, an intrepid radio host who takes to the streets of New York City to talk to everyday citizens who are facing the uncertainty of...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
LITTLE MISS WESTIE follows two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, school, dating and transitioning during the Trump era. Ren is competing in the Lil’ Miss Westie Pageant as the first out trans girl and her older brother Luca is coaching her on posing, makeup, and talent. He knows his stuff because he competed six years ago when he was living as a girl. Moving and unflinching, LITTLE MISS WESTIE challenges fundamental ideas about gender...
44) Generation 9/11
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Generation 9/11 marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by telling the stories of seven young people whose fathers were killed that day. The film explores how a man they never met and an event they didn’t witness have shaped their world view and the world around them. Their experiences reflect those of an entire generation, whose lives so far have been bracketed by crisis.
45) Meeting Snowden
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Edward Snowden, a former CIA and NSA employee, made history in 2013 when he leaked information exposing the biggest mass surveillance scandal of the century. In this film, a secret meeting between him and global freedom and civil rights campaigners, Birgitta Jonsdottir and Larry Lessig turns into a freewheeling discussion about the future of democracy. The questions they ask are fundamental.
46) Pelosi's Power
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Powerful and polarizing, explore House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s life and legacy. Across three decades, examine how Pelosi has gained and wielded power and faced grave challenges to her leadership and to American democracy from Trump and his allies.
47) Love v. Kentucky
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An intimate account of how two Kentucky attorneys with no background in civil rights navigate their passionate opponents, wrangle their reluctant allies, and convince the U.S. Supreme court to rewrite our nation’s definition of marriage.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Since 2001, five million hectares of forests have been destroyed in Paraguay to make way for soybean plantations. Soy fields now surround many villages and their residents are being poisoned by pesticides. In 2014, Adela, 6 months old, and Adélaïde, 3 years old, both died within a few hours, after being exposed to pesticide spreadings. Working with scientists, the Green Warriors team investigates the genetic damage to children exposed to these pesticides....
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
3 1⁄2 MINUTES, TEN BULLETS dissects the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Florida on Black Friday, 2012. The film examines the aftermath of this systemic tragedy, the contradictions within the American criminal justice system -particularly the implications of the "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law, and the racial prejudices that ensued. With intimate access, the film follows the trial of Dunn and its deep...
51) I'm with Phil
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a New Yorker named Phil Campbell discovers a rural town in Alabama that shares his name, he invites Phil Campbells from all over the world to join him there. The town starts preparing for the hoedown and the arrival of the Phil Campbells, but then a tornado strikes the town; an unimaginably horrible tornado, killing 27 people. And in a town of barely 1,000, everybody knew the victims. Nobody in the area has ever seen anything like it. Hailing...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the Presidential race and the timeless Scottish countryside to explore the troubling confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and Donald Trump. “There could not be a more important film than this,” wrote Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, yet the film was temporarily shut down following legal threats from the Trump Organization. As thousands of journalists hang...
53) After Parkland
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people and launched a nationwide student movement, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman embedded with students and families whose lives were forever transformed. They include senior David Hogg, who recorded his class during the attack and became the face of the Never Again movement; freshman Brooke Harrison, who was in the first classroom under attack;...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Naledi tells the incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant’s tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After one unassuming Chinese language teacher defected and spoke up against the Chinese government's multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute (CI) program, One of Canada's top 10 universities and its largest school board found themselves embroiled in a growing global controversy as scholars, parents, and officials question the CI program's political influence and true purpose.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jowan Safadi is a famous and controversial Palestinian-Israeli musician. His lyrics and songs are heavily critical of the situation in the territory. Investigated for “incitement to terrorism” and arrested on occasion, he must take care of his teenage son and is forced to face parental responsibilities while continuing to fight for his ideals. With his band Fish Samak, Jowan Safadi creates songs that speak about politics and society, and have...
58) Mosul
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Inside the brutal battle to defeat ISIS in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Filmed across the entire nine-month campaign, the documentary features extraordinary combat footage of one Iraqi Special Forces unit that bore the brunt of the fighting.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) wreaked havoc on the West Coast. Leaving behind a trove of paranoid recordings and scores of violent acts, including the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst who would join the SLA under the alias "Tania." Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
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